Projects
Kibeam Reading Project
Purchase 400 books for use with Kibeam Wands providing to local schools, childcare, and 501C3 organizations to help team children to read. This is a cross organization effort that required an MOU between the Rotary Club of Alpharetta and the YMCA of Greater Atlanta. Rotarians are providing the teachers and coordinating the distribution of wands at
Mayor's Corporate Challenge 5K
The 26th annual Mayor's Corporate Challenge 5K Fundraiser and Community Engagement Event is the only 5K road race allowed in downtown portion of Alpharetta. The race has grown since inception into a community engagement event with a number of local organizations, businesses, and corporations participating. We provide a family friendly evening of music, food, children's fun area along with a children's fun run and the 5K road race. The event is open to both corporate teams and individuals.More than 1,500 runners participated.
Polar Bear Plunge Fundraiser
The 6th annual Polar Bear Plunge raised nearly $280,000 across 58 teams to help myriad charities and organizations raise funds for their causes. This fundraising is unique due to the club providing the venue and fundraising platform and allowing any organization to mobilize and raise funds to help expand their reach, increase their impact, and change the trajectory of beneficiaries lives. The total raised is from our fundraising platform and does not include any direct contributions to the individual organizations. Organizations which participated and raised money via the 2025 PBP are:
Bread Run - North Fulton Community Charities
Bread Run - North Fulton Community Charities
This is a MAJOR on-going service project with huge impact to the community
Project Occurs 250 times per year -Each weekday, a member of Alpharetta Rotary picks up excess bakery products from local supermarkets and delivers it to NFCC (North Fulton Community Charities). This is an on-going major effort for the club and provides sustaining food sources to the local food bank. Rotarians of the Rotary Club of Alpharetta recognized that “food insecurity” was a significant problem in our community in 2001. Then, as now, many families have to make tough choice when it comes to deciding what to pay for within their limited means. Food is always one of the choices. We decided to partner with the Food Pantry at North Fulton Community Charities who annually distributes food over 20,000 times. We needed a food source and found it at Fresh Market and Kroger who was willing to make their day old breads and pastries available. Every day Monday through Friday a Rotarian makes the trip to Fresh Market and Kroger. The pick-up and delivery usually take one to two hours depending on where they begin their trip and the volume of goods.
Hurricane Relief Project
Provided two truckloads of supplies to victims of Hurricane Helene in multiple cities in North Carolina within weeks of Hurricane Helene striking (last 2024). These supplies were critical to residents of Burnsville to remain in their community and survive. Too many rotarians to count donated goods and supplies to this effort. Residents of Alpharetta also donated goods during pick up at two local churches. Additionally the Rotary Club of Alpharetta donated $5000 to the District Relief Fund and an additional $5500 to Reconciliation House who assist families in Yancey County North Carolina in January 2025. The club provided volunteers to assist in early January to help rebuild homes in North Carolina.
Rotary & American Legion Renovation Project
Rotary Club of Alpharetta raised funding via the Concerts Under the Stars providing a $73,000 grant to the American Legion to help renovate their outdated facilities allowing the Legion to market the space to the community. Couch Construction Group (owned by Alpharetta Rotarian) conducted the renovation and coordinated with vendors for donated lights, flooring, paint, and other needed materials. This initiative directly benefits local veterans and has allowed the American Legion to market their space for broader purposes in turn raising additional funds for the Legion to serve additional veterans. The American Legion has coordinated with a food vendor to provide meals and is using their own funding to further enhance the space. This space provides a lower cost alternative for weddings, celebrations, corporate events, and additional veterans events. A group of local Marine Corps Veterans are planning the United States Marine Corps 25oth Birthday Celebration at this event.
Service Trip to Honduras
This year 5 members of The Rotary Club of Alpharetta travelled to Honduras to participate in an 27th annual service trip with the HAVE foundation. The project included building pilas (outdoor utility sinks), concrete floors for homes, making and installing 100 water filters, painting school buildings and numerous other activities to benefit the local villagers.
Under The Stars - Concerts
Alpharetta Rotary Club developed, planned, and executed three concerts during this Rotary Year in Brooke St Park in Alpharetta, Ga. Overall we raised money for the American Legion and 10 other charities in the north Fulton area. These funds help to renovate the American Legion and assist these charities in accomplishing their missions. This has now grown into some of the seminal events in Alphretta, Ga and will continue in the future. We partner closely with the City of Alpharetta to put these concerts on.
On The Green - Concerts
The Alpharetta Rotary Concerts are held on the beautiful Town Green, which includes plenty of room for picnic blankets and lawn chairs, and is in walking distance to more than 30 chef-driven and locally-owned restaurants featuring everything from farm-to-table comfort food to tasty tacos. This event highlights what rotary does for the community providing a venue to advertise our club to participants via our Rotary Tent, banner, and rotarians have the opportunity to talk to the community before, during, and after the performances.
Serving Veteran's Dinner at local American Legion
The Alpharetta Rotary Club hosted local veterans at American Legion Post 201 and served dinner free of charge for any and all veterans who showed up that evening. These dinners and happy hours were conducted on Veteran's Day 2024 and during the American Legion general membership meeting on March 18, 2025. The purpose was to thank your veterans for their sacrifices and build camaraderie between the two organizations for potential future joint service opportunities. Approximately 75 people attended and were served. Rotarians brought or cooked food including our world class barbecue cooked by former president Mickey RogersVision Warriors Monthly Dinner
Once a month the club volunteers to prepare, ,cook, and serve dinner to the men and women in addiction recovery within Vision Warriors. Vision Warriors has declared a war on addiction and is a faith based, non-profit organization and community rooted in accountability and transparency. Rotarians provide support and "the best meal they eat each month" to help these individuals move on from their addiction and become stewards of their lives. This nonprofit is run by one of our Rotarians and as a result of these dinners a graduate of Vision Warriors has joined and is deeply active within our club. High School students from local High Schools have also joined our club on these evenings to help prepare and serve dinner.
Special Pops Tennis
This is a yearly project that we have renamed in honor of Jack Hausman a long service Alpharetta Rotarian who ran and promoted this yearly project in our club. Jack passed away in 2024. This event benefits members of the community with Down Syndrome and other cognitive disabilities. Alpharetta Rotarians come together to play tennis with these individuals and provide the venue.
Continuum of Care Helping Hands Drive
Continuum of Care Helping Hands Drive/Homestretch
Since 1903 HomeStretch has been guiding working families toward increased self-reliance and stability. They provide supportive housing and programs that equip working families to regain and sustain permanent housing.
Oyster Roast Social with Polio Plus Fundraiser
Alpharetta Rotary hosted the 10th annual Oyster Roast to benefit Polio Plus. The event give Alpharetta Rotarians the opportunity for fellowship as well as raising money for Polio Plus netting $3045 which was sent to RI on 3.31.25. Additionally we invited a number of non-rotarians and use this as an additional recruiting opportunity to demonstrate the power of Rotary.
Deliver fruit baskets to Dogwood Seniors
The Rotary Club of Alpharetta is a recognized leader in Alpharetta and the North Fulton County community for its support and involvement in a large number of community projects.
Bras and Bellinis
The Women of Alpharetta Rotary present: a Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Benefit. Wacool will donate $5000 to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for every bra, shapewear or sleepwear purchase on the day of the event. The participants raised funds and awareness of this critical medical issue.
Drake House
Drake house provides housing for low income families in North Fulton.
Project: Saturday, August 24th, starting at 9:30 AM, removing kitchen cabinets, fixtures, and countertops in preparation for kitchen remodels. Dispose of them in a dumpster on site or load them in my trailer, and take to the dump. The Rotary Club of Alpharetta sponsors an apartment at Drake House and refurbishes the space between family occupancy and will continue to support Drake House with apartment renovations and monetary investments. In the words of Milton Little, CEO of Greater United Way of Atlanta, invest in what works and Drake House works!
Backpacks 4 kids North Fulton Community Charities
Backpacks 4 kids North Fulton Community Charities
School supplies for kids in need for the back to school program. Our club puts together backpacks that contain many needed school supplies to kids in need in our community for families that could not provide these critical supplies otherwise.
Dinner for Family Promise
Continuum of care service project in support of families in need. We cook and serve dinner to families in the Family Promise program. These are homeless families who are living in area churches to assist in moving them from transitional housing to permanent housing. Many of these families have young children and the ability to have a home-0cooked and nutritious meal provides stability in an otherwise chaotic time in their lives.
USO - Feed the Troops
The Alpharetta Rotary Club provides and serves food to military members at the Atlanta Airport USO each quarter. Typically 5-10 Rotarians pay for and pick up lunch at a local Alpharetta restaurant, transport, set up, feed the troops, and clean up. Additionally we provide welcoming service for service members returning home from deployments, recent boot camp graduates, and others traveling on military orders and personal travel.
Women of Rotary
Monthly social meet up for female Rotarians (and female spouses of Rotarians). Alpharetta Rotary club hosted the Women of Rotary on February 26, 2025 amongst a number of clubs in the North Fulton Area. This also provides an opportunity to raise funds for local 501C3 organizations. This evening we raised $200 for Drake House whose
Grilling and Gridiron
Alpharetta's biggest tailgate to raise funds for Lionhearted a school for children and adults with cognitive disabilities. The Rotary Club of Alpharetta sponsors a tent and provides food to the participants. In addition to helping raise funds for a worthy cause it provides an engagement opportunity with the citizens of Alpharetta to highlight the great work conducted by our members in the community.
Adopt a mile Trash Pickup
Adopt a Mile Trash Pickup
Project Occurs 4 times per year - Alpharetta Rotary executes this road cleanup project once per quarter. The project consists of cleaning up a section of Old Milton Parkway in Alpharetta. The project provides the opportunity for fellowship and cooperation between new and long-time members of Alpharetta Rotary. We use this as one of the activities that new members are encouraged to participate in to learn more about Alpharetta Rotary by connecting with existing members in a casual conversation while performing community service.
Atlanta Braves Night Out
Atlanta Braves Night Out
Club social event. Alpharetta Rotary purchased 40 tickets for the Braves vs. Pirates on Friday, September 8th 2024.
The tickets for the event were resold to our members to provide an opportunity for Alpharetta Rotarians to participate in a casual social setting, The event was greeted enthusiastically by our membership.
Cafe Rotary
Small venue dinner at multiple Rotarian's homes to foster including an engagement amongst club members who may not interact with each other. Due to the larger nature of our club small gatherings of Rotarians and their spouses provide a fantastic venue to build relationships.Halloween Party
Planned, coordinated, and executed our annual Halloween Party for all club members, spouses, and guests to further engagement amongst our members. This year's event helped recruit potential Rotarians and because of the location and the fun, ended up having multiple people walk up and join the festivities. This assisted in furthering Rotary's mission and demonstrating to community members the concept of serve-hard, play-play hard and how the leaders of the community provide selfless service while having a great time.Holiday Party
Annual Holiday Party and announcement of next President. Opportunity for fellowship amongst the club members and because we hold this at a location in downtown Alpharetta it provides opportunities to interact with non-rotarians to tell the story of our club and help recruit potential members.
I Can Bike
Our club partners with a local down syndrome organization to help young people learn how to bike.
We understand that the vast majority of people with disabilities never have the experience of independently riding a conventional two-wheel bicycle during their lifetime. Research shows that over 80% of people with Autism and 90% of people with Down syndrome never experience this thrill. Defying these odds is why we exist!
Memorial Day Tribute
The City of Alpharetta and the Rotary Club of Alpharetta will host the 11th Annual Memorial Day Tribute on Monday, May 26, 2025. The event is a recognition of those who gave all to defend our country. The event includes speeches from local dignitaries and military members. Recognitions are made for all of the branches of military service.
Monthly Party Central Happy hour
Monthly Party Central Happy Hour engagement eventThis occurs 12 times per year - This is a monthly event that is sponsored by local businesses and held at a local restaurant. This event serves as a fellowship building opportunity as well as our official new member social event. All new members are encouraged to attend and learn more about rotary. Existing members have the opportunity to build rapport with other Rotarians outside our normal weekly meeting. Attendees are provided appetizers and have access to a cash bar. Because this is conducted at a public location it provides the opportunity to recruit potential rotarians and discuss with community members the values of rotary.
Salvation Army Bell Ringing
Spreading holiday cheer during the holiday season and raising funds for the Salvation Army Red Bucket Campaign